I want to compare the amount of information held on storage devices such as floppies, CD ROM and DVD to pages of text. Anyone got this, or a good link?
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2007-01-18 20:28:13 · 3 answers · asked by jiggery_pokery 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Floppy disks are usually 1.44mb capacity (some at 1mb unformatted or 720kb IBM formatted. A page of text in MS Word is around 31.5kb. So I think you can expect to get 23 pages to a floppy.
A useful website is http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/K/kilobyte.html
2007-01-18 20:56:28 · answer #1 · answered by Zebidee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you take ASCII text as an example the characters are 8 bits in length, 10 if you include the Stop and Start bits, so for arguments sake it's 10 bits. A floppy has approx about 1.3Mbits of storage, so by rule of thumb you should be able to get about 130,000 characters on a floppy (including spaces). For CD's and other media apply the same rule I guess. Remember you get more if you compress but I don't think that's what you mean. Hope that helps.
2007-01-19 04:36:47 · answer #2 · answered by Pucker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
her search in google, ul get good results, try typing in 'storage devices'
2007-01-19 04:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by bunnyBoo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋